May 10 2013
Damien Parker, a friend of mine from Australia, asked me about faking Neutral Density Filters in post processing. At the time I was kind of stumped, but gave him a quick answer, “Try using masks and Gaussian Blur in PS”. However, his question planted the seed in my brain, and I was hooked on finding …
Dec 28 2012
Many of you may know how powerful Camera Raw is during the post processing of your photographs. There are so many awesome adjustments that can save just about any photo from the horrors of a horrible exposure or white balance. Did you know that Camera Raw can also be an awesome place to do some …
Dec 07 2012
Over the past couple of weeks I have been hitting my workflow pretty hard with the 32 bit workflows from Photoshop and Photomatix to the bitter diatribe about saturation and HDR images. Today I want to share with you my love for Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and how well it post processes HDR tone mapped …
Dec 05 2011
I took my first HDR image on 28 February 2010 at Henry Cowell’s Redwood Forest near Santa Cruz, California. I was digging through my archives and found it, all somber and forgotten, poor guy. I looked at the tone mapped file that I did in 2010 and realized my HDR skills have improved greatly. Not …
Nov 02 2011
As a follow up to last weeks 5 HDR Tone Mapping Tips: Photomatix and the following weeks A Few HDR Shooting Tips, here are my top 5 post processing tips I cannot live without using Photoshop CS 5. I have several hundred tips to give out, hence all of the tutorials I do, but the following …
Sep 14 2011
I recently read The HDR Book by RC Concepcion and boy am I glad I did. RC has written the best HDR book to date. I have read 6 HDR books now, while the others may have been decent and sometimes good, none of them have hit the mark like RC. You want to talk Post Processing, …
